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HIGH COURT OF PARIS
International competition for a new Court of Justice in Paris

Client / Public Institution of the Palace de Justice of Paris
Program / High Court, accommodations, equipment 

Area / TGI 100 000 m² + accommodations 100 000 m²

Architects / Muoto, with Mieko Lévy-Kobayashi & Eric Dumarché
Year / 2006



TRIBUNAL DE GRANDE INSTANCE DE PARIS

Concours d'idées international pour le nouveau palais de justice de Paris
International competition for a new Court of Justice in Paris

Maître d’ouvrage / Etablissement Public du Palais de Justice de Paris
Programme / Tribunal de Grande Instance, logements, équipements

Surfaces / TGI 100 000 m² + logements 100 000 m²

Architectes / Studio Muoto, avec Mieko Lévy-Kobayashi & Eric Dumarché
Année / 2006
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  • This 100 000 m² project for Paris's new High Court works as a vertical and compact district, criss-crossed by a network of suspended hallways. These halls unfold above an existing industrial hangar. They are a replica of the three naves that form together, so as to articulate the various flows of users: magistrates, the public, and accused people. These passages include large common spaces and provide the visual bearings necessary to find one’s way in such a large building. They are carved out of the massive volume of the building, which defines the court of justice more as an absence of building than a building as such. They make the overall infrastructure function as a horizontal tower with expansive floors on every level, while allowing light into the circulation cores and a systematic division of levels into compartments. Inside each pole, civil and penal, secondary relationships are created through a series of escalators following the principle of “free-form section.”
  • Ce palais de justice pharaonique de 100 000 m² fonctionnecomme un quartier compact et vertical, sillonné par un réseau de ruessuspendues. Ces rues se déploient à l'aplomb d'une halle industrielleexistante. Elles répliquent ses trois nefs pour articuler les différents fluxd'usagers: les magistrats, le public et les prévenus. Elles intègrent lesgrands espaces communs et procurent les repères visuels nécessaires pours'orienter. Creusées dans l'épaisse masse du tribunal, elles le définissent pluscomme une absence de bâtiment que comme un bâtiment. Elle lui procurent lefonctionnement d'une tour horizontale – une tour qui bénéficient de grandsplateaux libres, mais qui ne souffre pas de noyaux aveugles et d'uncompartimentage systématique en niveaux. A l'intérieur de chaque pôle, civil etpénal, les relations secondaires s'établissent ensuite selon un principe de «coupe libre ».
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